Note
- New tech: Umehara started using normal to help his okizeme timing (strong kick before jumping)
- Umehara jumped more (maybe he realized that Gen's antiair doesn't do good damage and worth the risk)
- Umehara dominated this game and there're only 2-3 really close rounds or so.
- Xian got only 2 rounds out of 22 rounds.
- Xian connected 0 Ultra.
- "Umehara" appeared in Japan's Twitter trend.

Interview
- Umehara said he did homework for corner game and okizeme.
- Umehara practiced blocking Gen's okizeme in training mode.
- Umehara didn't use or aim for unblockable setup.
- Umehara didn't practice with Japanese Gen and "Xian is different, I think watching video is better."
- Umehara said since Gen's Super can combo to Ultra so he played more aggressive and didn't care about getting FADC'd anymore.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The famous voice actress Kana Ueda mentioned about Daigo Umehara on her blog on Saturday. She said that her group went to a pastry shop that was recommended by Umehara. She personally likes the mille-feuille and praised the "Umelog."

Umehara's hobby is trying out various restaurants and this's not the first time Ueda talks about his recommendation. She now called Umehara's restaurant guidance Umelog.

Main reason is JoJo's popularity in Japan. It's one of the longest (since 1987) popular manga and is still ongoing (108 volumes as of now). Most people in Japan know it. There're also a lot of female fans. A 26-episode anime was aired between October 2012 to April 2013. The game itself is top of Amazon Japan's best selling chart for more than a month.

We think that JoJo ASB will easily sell over 100,000 copies in its first week and top P4U. The real question is will it top Dissidia Final Fantasy?

Top 10 first week sales of fighting games between 2008-2013 in Japan by Media Create

Friday, August 16, 2013

a-cho yesterday posted a casual matches video of Fate/unlimited codes that reminds us again one of Capcom's biggest slips of half decade.

Fate/unlimited codes from 2008 is one of the best selling fighting games in the past 5 years. It almost beat the sales of the original Street Fighter IV. Yet Capcom abandoned the series and went for something like Street Fighter X Tekken instead. And we all know the original SFxTK was a disaster (glitches and imbalance) and they had to spend more resources to fix it.

Fate series (from a novel game in 2004) is big - comparable to Persona series, as you can see from their merchandises. (Amiami has 1,065 articles under Fate, and 804 under Persona) This's one thing that Capcom doesn't realize. And you know what happened when Persona 4 fighting game was released.

Capcom missed a good opportunity to pick it up and ride the popularity of Fate/Zero anime when they were busy preparing for SFxTK. The 25-episode anime was aired during 2011-2012. A new spinoff anime Fate/kaleid liner: Prisma Illya is being aired starting from July.

News flash from Famitsu has revealed this morning that there will be a location test of the sequel of Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena on August 16-18 at Tokyo Akihabara Hey and Osaka Nipponbashi Taito Station. Two new characters from Persona 3 series are revealed - Yukari Takeba and Junpei Iori.

- This's a documentary about team "Ore to Omae to Daigorou" (Me and You and Daigorou) in Tougeki 2003's Guilty Gear XX finals. The format was 3 on 3.
- The team consists of Arisaka (Slayer), Pachi (Faust), Daigo Umehara (Sol).
- Pachi is now working on BlazBlue series in Arc System Works.
- Umehara qualified for the (Tougeki 2003) finals (last day) on 4 games: Capcom vs. SNK 2, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Guilty Gear XX, Super Street Fighter II X.
- Arisaka and Pachi formed the team and invited Umehara.
- It has matches until semifinals. Arisaka couldn't win a game before that.
- You can hear Gama no Abura's voice in the background as he was Tougeki commentator.
- The legendary match was when they faced team "Hoshi no Koe". Denpa Jikkyou meme was born from the game between Umehara and Shishamo.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

- Daigo Umehara, Tokido, Mago, Xian, Ryan Hart, Kayane are confirmed to be at the booth.
- There'll be exhibition matches on September 21, 3-4 PM.
- A 64-man SSF4AE2012 tournament will be held on September 22 (11 AM - 4 PM) at the MadCatz booth. From semifinal will be first-to-five. Co-organized by TOPANGA. Champ will earn a seed in Capcom Cup that will be held at the end of this year in the US.
- There'll be players photo session on September 21-22, 4-5 PM.
- MadCatz's android based home console called M.O.J.O. will be showed.

Tokyo Game Show 2013 will be held between September 19-22 at Makuhari Messe.

A 61-hit combo
- out of a normal grab
- that deals only 20% damage
- and wastes 30 seconds (preventing late game comeback)
- with no way to escape (no Burst out of hit-stun)
- and you don't even need half of the meter
- and you end up having more meter!